1 HOUSE AND GARDEN 
December, 1910 
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What the Period Styles Really Are 
III. ENGLISH FURNITURE. 
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eral shelves enclosed by rails, not panels, 
so the air could circulate, and some of 
them had open shelves and a drawer for 
linen. They were used much as we use 
a serving-table, or as the kitchen dresser 
was used in old New England days. In 
them were kept food and drink for peo¬ 
ple to take to their bedrooms to keep star¬ 
vation at bay until breakfast. 
Drawing - tables were .very popular 
during Jacobean times. They are de¬ 
scribed as having two ends that were 
drawn out and supported by sliders, while 
the center, previously held by them, fell 
into place by its own weight. Another 
characteristic table was the gate-legged or 
thousand-legged table, that was used so 
much in our own Colonial times. There 
were also round, oval and square tables 
that had flaps supported by legs that were 
drawn out. Tables were almost invariably 
covered with a table cloth. 
Some of the chairs of the time of 
James I were much like those of Louis 
XIII, having the short back covered with 
leather damask or tapestry, put on with 
brass or silver nails and fringe around the 
edge of the seat. The chief characteris¬ 
tic of the chairs of this time was solidity, 
with the ornament chiefly on the upper 
parts, and they were molded oftener than 
carved, with the backs usually high. A 
plain leather chair called the “Cromwell 
chair,” was imported from Holland. The 
solid oak back gave way at last to the half 
solid back, then came the open back with 
rails, and then the Charles II chair, with 
its carved or turned uprights, its high 
back of cane, and an ornamental stretcher 
like the top of the chair back, between the 
front legs. This is a very attractive fea¬ 
ture, as it serves to give balance of deco¬ 
ration and also partly hides the plain 
stretcher from sight. A typical detail of 
Charles II furniture is the crown sup¬ 
ported by cherubs or opposed S-curves. 
James II used a crown and palm leaves. 
Grinling Gibbons did his wonderful 
work in carving at this time, using chiefly 
pear and lime wood. The greater part of 
his work was wall decoration, but he made 
tables, mirrors and other furniture as well. 
The room at Knole House that was 
furnished for James I is of great interest, 
as it is the same to-day as when first fur¬ 
nished. The bed is said to have cost 
£8,000. As it is one of the show places 
of England one should not miss a chance 
of seeing it. 
CTntil the time of the Restoration the 
furniture of England could not compare 
in sumptuousness with that of the Con¬ 
tinental countries. England, beside hav¬ 
ing a simpler point of view, was in a per¬ 
petual state of unrest. The honest and 
hard-working English joiners and carpen¬ 
ters adapted in a plain and often clumsy 
way the styles of the different foreigners 
who came to the country. Through it all, 
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